Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years?

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Post by benkoller » Fri, May 25, 2018, 1:54 PM UTC

IpV8 wrote: post #19

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which book? And what impact did it have?

Beyond good and evil? Changed the way all future philosophers defined and thought about objective morality.

I expect his comment to be a nihilist remark.

Re: Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years?

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Post by yehohanan7 » Fri, May 25, 2018, 1:54 PM UTC

invent a time machine

Re: Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years?

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Fri, May 25, 2018, 1:55 PM UTC

d--b wrote: post #11

Donate your sperm thrice a day for the rest of your life. Pretty sure one of your descendant will have a significant impact in 1000 years.

3 times a day?! Maybe in late teenage/early 20s but that's going to be seriously painful after a few days.

Re: Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years?

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Post by jonathanstrange » Fri, May 25, 2018, 1:55 PM UTC

zhdc1 wrote: post #7

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin

Exactly, people still read books by Plato and Aristotle.

Re: Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years?

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Post by xfactor973 » Fri, May 25, 2018, 1:56 PM UTC

There’s plenty of food bearing trees that would live that long. Olive, chestnut and monkey puzzle come to mind. Plant a food forest for your ancestors

Re: Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years?

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Post by pvaldes » Fri, May 25, 2018, 1:57 PM UTC

maratd wrote: post #12

boxbag wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about a million years?

Focus on leaving a high fidelity fossil.

The first people making a fosselfie would make a dent for sure. In the rock.

Re: Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years?

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Post by mars4rp » Fri, May 25, 2018, 1:57 PM UTC

If this a serious concern of yours, you are doing immortality project. Read Denial of death https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death

Re: Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years?

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Post by HankB99 » Fri, May 25, 2018, 1:58 PM UTC

ewretgg wrote: post #13

Chances are, you won't be remembered in 1000 years. And you'll be too dead to enjoy it if you are. Are you sure you have come to terms with that? Lots of people I meet here are obsessed with "making their dent in the universe" and I think some of it is driven by the fear of death. That said, if you just want to better the lives of future generations, there are plenty of things you can do now. Give money to good cause…

Do you need to be remembered to be significant? I consider them to be two different things.

For me the answer to both is to do what I can to have a positive impact on those around me. I consider my efforts as a scout leader to be the most likely thing I have done to affect our future, though I doubt I will be remembered much beyond the next generation.

Re: Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years?

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Post by bcoates » Fri, May 25, 2018, 1:59 PM UTC

Iconoclasm. Find something dumb people have been fighting over for a few hundred years or more, and blow it up.

Re: Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years?

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Post by anon1253 » Fri, May 25, 2018, 1:59 PM UTC

"Initiate a process, to create an environment in which the solution will occur independently of yourself" — Talos Principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmqA3pGe3Og&t=239s